The Grace To Deal with Adult Step Children

Remarriage for couples with adult children often represents a welcome chance at a happy relationship. Grace Gabe and Jean Lipman-Blumen in their book, Step Wars provides encouraging advice and strategies for stepfamilies.
 
Sept. 20, 2008 - PRLog -- Why would mature, independent, married adult children have a negative reaction to their parent’s happy remarriage?” Experts believe of a traditional expectation that the marriage will be long and happy and the newly created blended family will share in the couple’s obvious warmth and contentedness. In the book, Step Wars: Overcoming the Perils and Making Peace in Adult Stepfamilies, Grace Gabe, M.D. and Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ph.D. explain that much of the pain in adult stepfamilies is due to excessively high expectations on the part of the older couple and with personal anecdotes and professional insight.

Blended-Families.com “Ask the Expert” series has invited Grace Gabe and Jean Lipman-Blumen for an interview on Tuesday, September 30, 9 pm EST.  Dr. Gave and Prof. Lipman-Blumen will explain why the high expectation of loving acceptance can be dashed with the surprising negative reaction from their independent and mature children.

Dr. Grace Gabe is Board Certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Her lifelong interest in psychological development led to researching and writing about couples who reunite after many years of separation, which became a cover story for Psychology Today and was featured on national TV. Dr. Jean Lipman-Blumen holds the Thornton F. Bradshaw Chair in Public Policy and also serves as Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.


About Blended-Families.com

Blended-Families.com, sponsor of the “Ask The Experts” series for step parents, was founded by marriage and family therapist Emily Bouchard in 2003. Emily, whose first experience as a step parent was learning to deal with two teenage stepdaughters, has a Masters in Social Work and enjoys helping step parents overcome the same hurdles she experienced. Her step parenting tips newsletter, StepHeroes, has attracted nearly 6,500 subscribers worldwide. Bouchard is the author of several ebooks including her most popular, “Conquering Conflict”. She is joined in her work at Blended-Families.com by two other experienced parenting and relationship coaches, Sheena Berg and Yvonne Kelly.

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Jesse Fisher, Managing Member
Blended-Families.com, LLC
801-423-6426
jfisher @ blended-families.com

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About Blended-Families.com, LLC: Founded in 2003, this company provides resource-based websites offering support, articles, ebooks, expert interviews and coaching services to stepparents looking for answers to their toughest questions.
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